Sentences with phrase «cognitive demand in»

«To prepare our kids for the global digital world, we needed to first raise the level of cognitive demand in our standards, and then we needed to start teaching the skill sets that the corporate members of the partnership — the Microsofts, the Intels, the Ciscos, the Dells, and the Apples — had clearly identified.»

Notably the level of cognitive demand in many classrooms is not particularly high and is more focused on recall, memorization, and procedural knowledge.

Not exact matches

To treat religion and its cognitive demands with respect is to confront the very difficulties the Rav addressed in «Confrontation» and elsewhere.

In comparison with this «modern» world with its demanding cognitive criteria and its high social ideals, the traditional religions seemed anachronistic and outdated, empty and uncertain, narcissistic and undemanding — and incurably white and bourgeois.

Research tells us that demand feeding, rather than the scheduled feeding that often comes with expressing, results in increased cognitive development among children.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

«Cognitive activities such as watching television, listening to music, using the computer, text messaging, playing video games, concentrating in the classroom, and completing academic assignments can place additional neurometabolic demand on the brain because they all require mental exertion.

London's cognitive difficulties, however, seem to render Brussels increasingly impatient, and the further marginalization of Europe on the international scene will hopefully embolden it to take a firmer stance towards Britain and demand a clear statement as to its future in Europe.

Lazio has been demanding that Cuomo probe the funding behind the mosque for weeks, but it feels like total cognitive dissonance in the ad.

The first villagers also had to cope with the cognitive demands and social stresses created by living in the midst of strangers.

A baby's cry has been shown to cause aversion in adults, but it could also create an adaptive response by «switching on» the cognitive control parents use in effectively responding to their child's emotional needs while also addressing other demands in everyday life, adds Haley.

«Even in the simplest social group possible, cognitive demands help shape brain evolution,» Wcislo says.

«In our test, they only have to remember something that just happened; they aren't weighed down by other cognitive demands.»

In young and healthy adults, for example, a high demanding cognitive test was required to uncover the subtle immediate behavioral effects that cocoa flavanols have on this group.

Steven Piantadosi and Celeste Kidd, assistant professors in brain and cognitive sciences, developed a novel evolutionary model in which the development of high levels of intelligence may be driven by the demands of raising offspring.

Social animals tend to be smarter than solitary ones, because of the cognitive demands of group living, so if plesiosaurs did live in groups they ought to show signs of intelligence.

He argues that developments in the cognitive sciences and behavioural ecology challenge the assumption that the pursuit of scientific knowledge demands an abandonment of values.

In one of the first studies to look at the cognitive demands of selecting a mate, female guppies with big brains preferred more colourful males — a trait linked with good health and foraging ability.

«The use of a coconut shell for protection does not fit this definition, but I sympathise with the authors in that this does not imply that the cognitive demands for such an action are lower,» Kacelnik says.

The cognitive demands of those social lives, in turn, could have further driven evolution.

«The effects of multi-target simultaneous stimulation of motor and cognitive networks demand investigation,» says Prof. Jeffrey Hausdorff of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine and the Center for Movement Disorders at Tel Aviv Medical Center, who led the research for the study, just published in the journal Movement Disorders.

«Given past research on texting while driving and mentally demanding tasks, I can see how «texting while parenting» would lead to some cognitive and emotional conflict,» said Bayer, who wasn't involved in the new study.

Like any other organ in your body, your brain needs quite a bit of ATP and creatine, especially in times of intense cognitive demand, focus or stress.

This is especially important because the Common Core is demanding on students and asks them to learn in ways that No Child Left Behind often did not - and to develop the stamina to dig into challenging work that includes increased cognitive rigor.

Second, children in these charter schools are highly successful on high stakes tests despite rather modest teaching techniques and the presence of significant variation in the cognitive demand of tasks required of children across a school's classrooms.

The development of a child's skills in one domain (cognitive, social - emotional, interpersonal) can profoundly inform the development of her skills in other domains; the interrelatedness of these domains demands more attention than previously understood.

As Porter et al. note, «Whether these differences between Common Core and Massachusetts mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7 in [English language arts], there is a shift in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»

Porter and his team identify 217 topics in math and 163 in English language arts and reading, and five levels of cognitive demands, yielding 1,085 distinct types of content for math and 815 for English language arts.

To engender this success in my students, I work to make sure they're adequately prepared for evaluations by creating lessons that engage high cognitive demands, which develop mental pathways to long - term memory.

Regular exercise results in more restful nights, which in turn can boost the energy that you need to take on the physical and cognitive demands of your profession.

... High - performing countries» emphasis on «perform procedures» runs counter to the widespread call in the United States for a greater emphasis on higher - order cognitive demand.

Importantly, the benefits of testing for learning were accompanied by reductions in test anxiety (possibly because students became accustomed to testing style or as a result of positive feedback from earlier tests) and subjective estimates of cognitive demand.»

Pathway teachers participated in 46 hours of training and learned how to apply cognitive strategies by using an on - demand writing assessment to help students understand, interpret, and write analytical essays about literature.

That doesn't mean that they have a preferred learning style, just a deficiency in specific cognitive tasks that certain subjects demand of them.

Each FACT includes a detailed description of the FACT, how the FACT promotes student learning, how the FACT informs instruction, tips for designing and administering the FACT, general implementation attributes (e.g. - ease of use, time, cognitive demand), ways to modify the FACT for diverse learners, caveats to watch out for, and other disciplines the FACT can be used in besides science or mathematics.

In this section of the review, we include research on on - demand performance assessments that require students to demonstrate higher - order cognitive processes and to provide some extended responses to comprehension questions or to write in response to a prompIn this section of the review, we include research on on - demand performance assessments that require students to demonstrate higher - order cognitive processes and to provide some extended responses to comprehension questions or to write in response to a prompin response to a prompt.

In the beginning of the lesson, the teacher instructs on identifying the / b / sound, which is a simpler concept, before instructing on identifying objects that start with the letter B, a more complex cognitive demand.

Engagement Based Sheltered Instruction A rich model of student engagement that helps educators understand students» language proficiency levels and the language demands of content areas, texts and tests; develop student academic language in content areas; and plan, teach and observe for maximum cognitive engagement.

Insight in action MSP - sponsored teacher leaders used a protocol that focused attention on cognitive demand and student engagement as they planned and reviewed lessons with mathematics or science teachers.

In this study, the implementation of 63 mathematical tasks was documented in three secondary and one middle school mathematics classroom, and the Mathematical Tasks Framework (Stein & Smith, 1998) was used to correlate the cognitive demand of mathematical tasks with the use of technology as an amplifier or reorganizer of students» mental activity (Pea, 1985, 1987In this study, the implementation of 63 mathematical tasks was documented in three secondary and one middle school mathematics classroom, and the Mathematical Tasks Framework (Stein & Smith, 1998) was used to correlate the cognitive demand of mathematical tasks with the use of technology as an amplifier or reorganizer of students» mental activity (Pea, 1985, 1987in three secondary and one middle school mathematics classroom, and the Mathematical Tasks Framework (Stein & Smith, 1998) was used to correlate the cognitive demand of mathematical tasks with the use of technology as an amplifier or reorganizer of students» mental activity (Pea, 1985, 1987).

U.S. students are particularly weak in performing math tasks with higher cognitive demands, such as taking real - world situations and translating them into mathematical terms, according to the OECD report.

This reflects the increasing understanding that in rapidly changing knowledge economies, critical thinking and problem solving are important parts of the new global skill set, whereas the labor market demand for routine cognitive competencies — the kinds of skills that are easy to teach and test — has declined rapidly over recent decades.

Explore how to develop, select, or modify mathematics tasks in order to balance cognitive demand and engage students.

Explore how to develop, select, and modify mathematics tasks in order to balance cognitive demand and engage students.

In particular, the apparent emphasis on higher order cognitive demand contrasts with the practice of top - achieving countries, which tend to place greater emphasis on «performing procedures.»

Unlike typical alignment studies that look specifically at the topics of the standards, this study also examined the cognitive demand embedded in the standards.

Although not minimizing the importance of traditional cognitive ability, these authors point out that conventional assessments account for a small portion of the variance when examining long - term academic and career accomplishment, especially as it relates to the advancement of adult competencies in highly demanding professions where leadership skills and creative productivity are the criteria for success.

Educators will tell you that in order to prepare students to master the standards, instructional materials must align to the content, context and cognitive demand or performance expectation of each standard.

Six possible reasons for the differences in value - added between tests: timing, statistical imprecision, test content, cognitive demands, test format, and the consequences of the test.

Take a look at these two 6th grade ELA standards in terms of their cognitive, social, and emotional demands: Students will engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on topics, texts, and issues, building on others» ideas and expressing their own clearly while respecting diverse perspectives.